Janjaweed

The Janjaweed was a Sudanese Arab paramilitary founded in 1987 to fight against the native Africans in the Darfur and South Sudan regions during the Sudanese Civil War and later the Darfur War. The Janjaweed had a maximum strength of 25,000, and the militia was involved in massacres against innocent people, with 300,000 people being killed in Darfur, including many civilians. The Janjaweed, mostly nomadic Bedouin, fought against the sedentary Sub-Saharan Africans, turning Darfur into sectarian violence.